Greetings O Ye Waiters...and I don't mean Ye servers of food and beverages...
"How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide Your face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart all the day? How Long will my enemy be exalted over me?" (Psalm 13:1-3)
The waiters that I am talking about are those who are WAITING for God to show up. In the Ruminator Sunday School class..we like to call this waiting between the point of the problem and our prayers to the point of the provision and answered prayer as THE LAND OF NITTY GRITTY. This is the land where we DO NOT SEE God. It is the land where reality (real stuff) continues to happen. It is the land where the enemy appears to have won...and God is no where in sight. It is the land where we don't deny reality...but we do deny realities right to rule us. It is the land where we have to WALK BY FAITH...NOT BY SIGHT (II Co3. 5:7) It is the land where we get to PLEASE GOD by (1) coming to Him (2) as we come to Him we believe that He is (3) we believe that He is a rewarder (4) and we diligently seek Him and not just passively inquire of Him (Hebrews 11:6)
David again laments the problem...breathes up the prayer...and the adds the BUT FACTOR.
1.. Consider and answer me, O Lord My God (Psalm 13:3)
NOTE: Praying with an anticipation of an answer. This is praying a specific prayer.
2. Enlighten my eyes
NOTE: As we walk by faith and not HUMAN SIGHT...David desires to see through EYES OF FAITH. David realizes that IF his eyes are NOT enlightened..."sleep the sleep of death". With his EYES OF FAITH open...his sleep will be the sleep of life. When we are sleeping "the sleep of death"...our enemies will see our situation as one of lose. They will say..."I have overcome him" and the adversaries will rejoice when we are shaken.
Now...David has wondered how long before an answer is coming......requested God's consideration and answer in the matter...stated the problem IF God does not intervene...and then stated the BUT FACTOR.
1. BUT
NOTE: This is where most of us miss it. We despair in the unanswered prayer...imagine what will happen to us...and never enter the BUT FACTOR...BEFORE the answer is ever seen. Unenlightened eyes stay this way...enlightened eyes see the solution more than they see the problem.
2. I HAVE trusted in Your lovingkindness
NOTE: I have...not I'm going to. The trusting in His lovingkindness takes place before the answer appears. It's called walking the the substance of things hoped (confidently expected), the evidence of things NOT SEEN.
3. My heart SHALL rejoice in Your salvation
NOTE: Not could, not possibly will...but SHALL, jump up and spin around before the answer is seen.
4. I WILL sing to the Lord
NOTE: Not a dirge...not the blues...but songs of praise by choice (I will)
6. BECAUSE...He HAS dealt bountifully with me.
NOTE: Has...is past tense. It is one of those Ebenezer moments...where God has been faithful in the past...we have built an altar to commemorate that...and as we face our present with one eye to the past (Ebenezer..God had met the need back then)...and one eye to the now (present need)...affecting our future (the outcome). All of this is based on our CHOICE when it looks like God is no where to be found...and we are wondering HOW LONG.
Love and Anticipating Kisses
Rodney "Walking By Faith" Boyd
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